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STORIES FROM THE CAMPUS CLOSET / UC BERKELEY'S 1950S GAY, LBIAN ALUMNI TELL HISTORY

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Wt also drew on historil pollg on legalizatn of gay marriage and marijuana e to monstrate how both public policy issu took 30 to 40 years to reach 60% of voter support. Mildred (Jefey) Dickemann took part an oral history scribg gay and lbian life at Universy of California at Berkeley the 1950s. Chronicle photo by Kendra Luck2000-09-06 04:00:00 PDT BERKELEY -- Gay and lbian stunts at the Universy of California at Berkeley may have been forced to rema the closet 50 years ago, but that didn't stop them om venturg out to gay bars San Francis wh their straight iends.

"It was a kd of show for them, a cursy, " relled Mildred Dickemann of the people who acpanied her to Focch's, the Black Cat and Mona's North for the closeted gay llege stunts, gog to the bars was much more than a passg para. Many of Kelly's iends did not know Kelly was gay and even though he was havg trysts wh men, Kelly did not thk of himself as homosexual. "You always thought that you were gog to get married, " said, Dickemann and five other gay alumni told their stori for an oral history project lled Gay Bears.

The llectn, the Universy Archiv at UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library, is the first documentatn of gay life on mp. He is also adjunct curator for the Bancroft Library's Sexual Orientatn and Social Conflict Collectn, which exam gay and opposg reactns to such issu as same-sex marriag and domtic- partner benefs.

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Benemann me up wh the ia for the Gay Bears llectn after searchg the archiv a ago for any rerd of gay and lbian history but fdg nothg. It was not unlike his experience when he first entered UC Berkeley as a 19-year-old sophomore 1969.

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"When I me here, I knew that I was gay, but I never met another person who I knew was gay, " relled Benemann.

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